Microsoft Exposés

• Is Microsoft getting ahead of itself? by Mike Ricciuti (News.com) (19 Feb 02)
  In typical Microsoft fashion, the world's largest software manufacturer dived headlong into [Web services] with a rush of marketing hyperbole. Also in character, at least according to critics, the company created much buzz about the new technology before fully developing its concept, let alone any actual products or services.
• Microsoft's blind spot by Bill Joy (Sun Microsystems via News.com) (7 Feb 02)
  Adding security to an existing, large insecure system will, in my judgment, prove an impossible task.
• .Net vote rigging illustrates importance of Web services by Peter Judge (ZDNet UK) (9 Jan 02)
  investigation revealed just what lengths Microsoft will go to to promote its products.
• Microsoft deal fans flames of revolt by Dave Winer (News.com) (8 Nov 01)
  The rest of us are totally cut out of this deal. We're taken for granted: We're dumb, fat and happy, supposedly, and the future no longer looks so bright.
• EU: Microsoft obstructed investigation by Reuters (10 Oct 01)
  The European Commission has told Microsoft the company obstructed the EU executive's investigation of the software giant's practices.
• The devil is in Windows' details by Scott Rosenberg (Salon.com) (8 Oct 01)
  It's the little things, like "registered file types," that allow Microsoft to maintain its monopoly. Will the court tackle them?
• MS Security Plan: OK, Kind Of by Michelle Delio (Wired News) (4 Oct 01)
  Many experts said Microsoft's Strategic Security Protection Program plan announced Wednesday is nothing more than a half-hearted attempt to assuage increasing demands from government, industry and consumers for better product security, before the government intervenes and business falls.
• Ditch Microsoft IIS now, says Gartner by Andrew Orlowski (The Register) (24 Sep 01)
• Lobbyists Tied to Microsoft Wrote Citizens' Letters by Joseph Menn & Edmund Sanders (L.A. Times) (23 Aug 01)
  Letters purportedly written by at least two dead people landed on the desk of Utah Atty. Gen. Mark Shurtleff. Minnesota Atty. Gen. Mike Hatch said, "It's sleazy. This is not a company that appears to be bothered by ethical boundaries."
• The trouble with Hotmail by Damien Cave (Salon.com) (21 Aug 01)
  Microsoft can't seem to get its free e-mail act together. So what does that mean for the company's plans for total Net domination?
• Microsoft charity dispute draws attention by CNet News.com staff (20 Jul 01)
  Australian charity has received applause from around the world after standing up to Microsoft
• Microsoft: The Tonya Harding of technology by Michael Daconta (ZDNet) (19 Jul 01)
  What do you do if you can't win a fair competition? Club your opponent in the knees.
• Microsoft unbound by Andrew Leonard (Salon.com) (12 Jun 01)
  No longer cowed by the feds, the colossus of Redmond returns to business as usual.
• Microsoft's Really Hidden Files by The Riddler (8 Jun 01)
• New Windows XP Feature Can Re-Edit Others' Sites by Walter S. Mossberg (Wall Street Journal) (7 Jun 01)
• Microsoft storm warning by Scott Rosenberg (Salon.com) (28 Mar 00)
  The HailStorm program will put all your data in one convenient place – and leave Bill Gates with the keys.
• Microsoft's .Net: Visionary or vaporware? by Scott Rosenberg (Salon.com) (30 Jun 00)
• Its Own Worst Enemy by Scott Rosenberg (Salon.com) (9 Jun 00)
• Microsoft Quietly Yanks OS Backup CDs by Ed Foster (InfoWorld.com) (3 May 00)
• Risks of the Passport Single Signon Protocol by David P. Kormann & Aviel D. Rubin (AT&T Labs) at the 9th International World Wide Web Conference (May 00)
• Software outlaw roams the streets! by Scott Rosenberg (Salon.com) (3 Apr 00)
• A Very Public Remedy by Ralph Nader and James Love (Legal Times) (14 Dec 99)
• How the Web was almost won – Just how close did we come to a Net ruled by Microsoft? by Tim O'Reilly (Salon.com) (16 Nov 99)
• Why Microsoft must be stopped by Ralph Nader & James Love (Computerworld) (9 Nov 99)
• Wishful thinking could lead justice astray on antitrust by Dan Gillmor (San Jose Mercury News) (22 Oct 99)
• Antitrust experts bash MS lobbying by Lisa M. Bowman (ZDNet News) (15 Oct 99)
• MS pricing and 'bounties' nix Gates honorary degree by John Lettice (The Register) (10 Oct 99)
• Leaked email exposes MS charity as PR exercise by Graham Lea (The Register) (1 Oct 99)
• I'm Tired of the Way Windows Freezes! by Walter S. Mossberg (Wall Street Journal) (30 Sep 99)
• Bill Gates' set-top boxing by Scott Rosenberg (Salon.com) (14 May 99)
• Microsoft Opinion "Survey" (aka "push poll") by MacInTouch readers (19 Nov 98)
• Ralph Nader tells feds to stop Microsoft by Ralph Nader & James Love (11 Nov 98)
• Windows 98 disables Microsoft competitors' software by Brian Livingston (CNN) (14 Jul 98)
• The Big Microsoft PR Ploy by John C. Dvorak (PC Magazine) (1 Jul 98)
• Tell 'em we're 'mad as hell' by Sam Vincent Meddis at USA Today (29 Jun 98)
• Consumer Choice in Web Browsers: One Year Later - a NetAction report (May 98)
• Microsoft Plans Fake Letters? – ABC News (10 Apr 98)
• No overtime for mouse martyrs by Margie Wylie (News.com) (7 Jan 98)
• The Microsoft-Intuit Merger: The Intervention that Worked... by Nathan Newman (NetAction white paper) (1998)
• Crushed by Microsoft: What I learned by Rich Seidner (30 Dec 97)
• The Micro soft-shoe by Margie Wylie (News.com) (29 Oct 97)
• The Microsoft Menace by Ralph Nader (Slate) (29 Oct 97)
• Let them eat popcorn ... – outsourcing at Microsoft by Paul Rogat Loeb (Salon) (30 May 97)
  How Microsoft is turning its employees into second-class (and third-class) citizens.
• Consumer Choice in Web Browsers – a NetAction report (May 97)
• From MSWord to MSWorld: How Microsoft is Building a Global Monopoly by Nathan Newman (NetAction white paper) (1997)
• Don't Be Soft On Microsoft! by Nathan Newman (New York Times Magazine) (5 Nov 95)

Anti-Microsoft Sites

• Anti-Microsoft Webring
• – a true grassroots movement (22 Sep 99)
• Microsoft Boycott Campaign, including the SuperList (1977)
• Microstuff – Mother Jones' resources for advanced hellraising (23 Dec 97)
• NetAction's Consumer Choice Campaign home page (May 97)
• Yamoo! (Yet Another anti-Microsoft Oriented Oracle) – 1500+ links! (1998)